Word: chug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Palais des Sports, the Tex Rickard of Paris. Last week he also had several truckloads of sand, a six-wheeled motor truck, a dozen unemployed Montmartre musicians, six chorus men, 100 lions. With these he staged a lion hunt. The black musicians brandished spears, whooped. The truck chug-chugged, blew up clouds of sand. The musicomedy lion-hunters fired many a blank cartridge. The lions yawned, played with the desert's papier-mache rocks, refused to play dead. But spectators applauded nonetheless. A lion hunt was different...
TIME uses Webster's International, retaining editorial license. To the TIME ear it seems that a steam locomotive says "chuff" when it starts up, not "chug," the sound of antique motorcycles and fishermen's power boats.-ED. Sister of M. L. S. Sirs...
...Washington last week, captains of U. S. Coast Guard cutters were waiting the arrival of the Pribilof fur seals, whose annual migration was reported on the move. When the seals were sighted, plunging and barking on their way to the Pribilof Islands off Alaska, the Coast Guardsmen would chug out to follow them, to guard them in their curious hegira...